Eugenia

Konqueror still has a file manager component that is not the same as Dolphin.

There are not many complex app that are stable under Wine. Notepad++ is so-so stable under it, but things like Affinity Photo is not. I don’t expect FilemakerPro to be either. And you don’t want to lose data with a crash… being a database and all.

Which features of Opus do you specifically use that aren’t part of regular file managers? KDE’s file manager doesn’t do what you need? Other ones to try are Konqueror (probably the closest to Opus, it should be part of Debian’s repo: sudo apt install konqueror), PCManFM (also part of debian’s repo), Krusader, and Double Commander (found online, third party).

As for Windows apps, do NOT try to run them via Wine. Even if they will install (unlikely most of the time), they will be crashy. Games work because they don’t use much of the Windows API, but apps do, and most of the API is not implemented under WINE. So your best bet is to run a Windows VM. You can setup a “spice” to share files between your VM and your Linux system, and then run these apps under a free version of Windows (you don’t have to pay for a license these days).

Each utility is unique, and it’s unlikely you’d be happy with a replacement that doesn’t implement all the features you need. For now, just use the package you built, and make sure it rebuilts with each kernel update, and you should be good.

Download cpufreqd from Sid (which is available at), or more safely, recompile it yourself.

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I use Debian-Testing, so I never go from a major release to another, and it’s very stable that way. But yes, a big upgrade is never smooth with Debian, even if Debian itself is very stable (when installed from scratch). I think the solution is a clean install every 2 years. Or use Debian-Testing, so things don’t blow up from a small release to another. Even Linux Mint is not very stable from a major release to another (meaning, from one LTS to another). But Ubuntu is more stable between interim releases, but also not very stable between LTS releases.

So either you go with a “stable-ish” rolling release like Debian-Testing (which in my opinion is the most stable rolling release distro), or you re-install every 2 years.

Roll back the kernel and do a back report on both SuSE and kernel.org. Not much you can do until they fixed it.

If these Macbook Airs are from 2011/2013 (I expect so, based on the prices you mentioned), you might need to buy a usb wifi btw. The Linux driver, and the official broadcomm driver is buggy with latest versions of the kernel. On my mid-2011 macbook air there would be a crash when downloading lots of data (e.g. when updating the system), and on my 2013 one, it wouldn’t wake up from sleep. Both issues were due to the buggy wifi driver. So I bought a tp-link super tiny usb wifi stick, and it works out of the box (I had to blacklist of course the broadcomm drivers before).

One last thing is that Elementary requires 1.2 GB of RAM to boot up, and these machines usually come with 4 GB. Make sure you have created a 4 GB swap file in there. Alternatively, Linux Mint can be made to boot up at 750 MB of RAM after removing some services. Either way, make sure you have created a swap partition.

The biggest problem of ubuntu is snaps.

However, if you’re into audio, you can install linux mint, which is ubuntu-based, and then install the ubuntu-studio-pipewire-something (sorry, can’t remember how the package is actually called), which FIXES pipewire to work properly with high end audio apps. For example, on my vanilla Linux Mint, Bitwig Studio would not make a peep! After installing that package, it produces sound. With that fixed, you can do everything on Mint.